Tom Jacobs
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolTom Jacobs is a software engineer and technology leader with nine years of experience building robotics, platform software, and hardware–software systems across startups and growth-stage companies. Based in Palo Alto, he most recently led platforms, autonomy, and applications at Ghost Robotics, where he helped develop the SDK that enables developers to program robot behaviors. He has co-founded and led engineering teams as CTO at HomeShare and Kepler Analytics, shaping product direction, infrastructure, and data processing. Earlier in his career, he built foundational web and mobile products at Expensify and contributed to core P2P and BitTorrent technologies at Red Swoosh, with later integration work at Akamai. He holds a CS degree from the University of Melbourne and has pursued continuous learning with a Self-Driving Car Nanodegree and ML coursework. His GitHub bio—Robots, Electronics, Hardware—reflects a lifelong passion for hands-on systems that blend software with the physical world.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Machine Learning, Machine Learning at CourseraSelf Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree, Self Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree at UdacityThe University of Melbourne
Github Skills (93)
kinematics10
python10
simulator10
bullet10
deep-learning10
robotics10
collision-detection10
ssh210
ml10
sdk10
neural-network10
pybullet10
data-science10
collision10
reinforcement-learning10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tjacobs/Hills
Mar 2025 - Apr 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 309 pushes, 4 branches in 13 days
tjacobs/OpenRover
Jul 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:123 commits, 201 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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